DBD::Oracle trial version v1.43_00 in its way to CPAN

Hi all,

     A new trial version of DBD::Oracle is on its way to CPAN.  The 
complete change delta is reported below, but the pièce de résistance of 
this release is Martin's hunting down of all uses of DBIS.

     While those changes are boosting DBD::Oracle's performance (mostly 
for threaded perls), which is awesome, they are also extensives. We 
therefore need as much exposure and testing on as many Oracle platforms 
as we can. If you have time, please consider giving this release a 
whirl. Pretty please. :-)

Enjoy!
`/anick


1.43_00   2012-03-30

  [BUG FIXES]
  - Applied patch from Rafael Kitover (Caelum) to column_info to handle
    DEFAULT columns greater in length than the DBI default of 80. The
    DEFAULT column is a long and it is a PITA to have to set
    LongReadLen which you can only do on a connection handle in
    DBD::Oracle. The default maximum size is now 1Mb; above that you
    will still have to set LongReadLen (Martin J. Evans)

  - Fixed 70meta and rt74753-utf8-encoded to not die if you cannot
    connect to Oracle or you cannot install from CPAN if you have not
    set up a valid Oracle connection.

  - Fixed 75163. Bfile lobs were not being opened before fetching if
    ora_auto_lobs was disabled (Martin J. Evans).

    Note: this has a minor impact on non bfile lobs when ora_auto_lobs
    is not in force as an additional call to OCILobFileIsOpen will be
    made.

  - Removed all DBIS usage fixing and speeding up threaded
    Perls (Martin J. Evans).

  - Minor fix to avoid use of uninitialised variable in 31lob.t (Martin 
J. Evans)

  [DOCUMENTATION]
  - clarification of when StrictlyTyped/DiscardString can be used and
    LongReadLen (Martin J. Evans)

  - Documented the 3rd type of placeholder and rewrote the existing
    pod for placeholders (Martin J. Evans).

-- 
Yanick Champoux, Senior Perl Developer
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